I remember as a kid being totally confused by those "give a penny, take a penny" trays. I thought you were supposed to put a penny in and take another penny out and didn't see the point of it.
A childhood belief about money

others believed things like this
- i used to believe that if you put a penny on a train tracks that it would derail it — ROSS
- I used to believe that God looked exactly like the picture of Abraham Lincoln on an American penny.— Leah
- I used to read about Lady Penelope and believe that her name was pronounced Penny-lope (lope as in antelope).Anon
- I used to think that my mom had to buy ice cubes from the store and bring them home to fill up the trays.— Shawna
- As a kid, I thought "No Outlet" signs meant the houses past that point didn't have any electrical outlets.— Julie
- I thought Maria Carey's 1998 ballad was 'I'd give my arms' instead of 'I'd give my all'.— Briony Maggs